Chapter 3762: Sealing

Closing the team channel, for some reason, Caesar didn't respond for the time being. This was a bit abnormal. Generally, in this situation, Caesar would appear beside him in the next second.

Under the current situation, there were only two possibilities: one was that Caesar was trapped somewhere, and the other was that Caesar had greater benefits there.

Su Xiao began to re-examine the Monarch's Treasure in front. The number of Soul Coins looked amazing, but after grabbing a large handful, he found that although the ones below were Soul Coins, they revealed a withered and weathered feeling.

Picking up a Soul Coin of this kind, Su Xiao found that the energy inside had been absorbed, leaving only an empty shell. This kind of Soul Coin had lost its value.

Looking at it this way, only about 100,000 Soul Coins on the top were normal. Besides this, those dozen or so 【Primal Fragments】 were not necessarily in good condition, after all, they were all inlaid on the iron-black crown, and the 【Soul Crystal Essence】 scattered on the Soul Coins were all fine, totaling 50+ pieces.

Besides this, those three Eternal-level equipment also had great attraction to Su Xiao. In general, although this pile of secret treasures was not as exaggerated as it looked, if he split it 50-50 with Caesar, the harvest would still be considerable.

Su Xiao didn't find 【Moon Glow】 in this pile of secret treasures, nor did he find Dead Silence Ash, which might appear. Thinking about it this way, this was only part of the Monarch's Treasure.

Caesar had already replied to the message, meaning he would rush over quickly. There were some urgent matters to deal with there. Not only that, he also said he found something very interesting and wanted to give it to Su Xiao. Seeing this, Su Xiao was a bit surprised. With Caesar's style of loving money like life, he actually wanted to give something away for free this time, which was truly unexpected.

However, compared to this point, there was one thing that made Su Xiao more puzzled. The Crazy Laugh Town clearly belonged to a dangerous area, but after entering this place, there was no substantial danger. Even, the old mayor of this town even brought him to the storage place of these treasures.

This was truly puzzling. Su Xiao walked along the stairs upward. When he reached the exit, he found that the rock secret door in front had already closed. He knocked on the secret door with one hand, and art patterns immediately surged on the secret door, which meant he was trapped here.

Inside the large stone house outside the secret door, Old Mayor · Ligojia heard the knocking sound from behind the secret door, and the smile on his face became even more kind. In the soup pot in front of him, a pot of thick soup mixed with scarlet was bubbling.

"Young man, don't be in a hurry. After decades, a hundred years, you will use all your wealth to pray for me to let you out. Although, even if I accept your wealth, I won't let you out, hehehehe..."

Ligojia stirred the thick soup in the pot. The originally kind smile had already revealed a bit of weirdness. For those who came here to find the Monarch's Treasure, he had seen too many over the years. However, no one could leave this place, and they couldn't take away those cursed secret treasures, and they had to lose their lives.

*Bang! *

A muffled sound came from inside the secret door. Ligojia shook his head with a smile. Even a Supreme in the middle tier couldn't do anything about this secret door blessed with scarlet power. Just now, he had already sensed it. Although the person who came had amazing blood energy, he should have only been promoted to Supreme not long ago. Thinking of this, Ligojia felt even more relieved.

*Thud!! *

A loud explosion came. Before Ligojia could react, he had already sunk into the side wall. The secret door, which was only one-third left, flew out after breaking the wall, and finally, with a muffled sound, shattered most of the monster sculpture in the center of the town.

Ligojia looked at the monster sculpture that was mostly shattered in the center of the town through the hole in the wall, and his old face full of wrinkles twitched fiercely.

"So, you are planning to trap me to death in this corridor."

Su Xiao stepped on his slightly numb right foot. This secret door was indeed quite sturdy, and it hurt his feet to kick it.

A crystal chair was formed. After Su Xiao sat down, he pointed to the chair opposite, meaning to sit down and talk. Seeing this scene, Ligojia's face was extremely ugly, and he finally chose to sit down.

"What is going on with this small town?"

"Greedy people can't walk out of this small town..."

*Zing~*

A slash appeared out of thin air. Ligojia's head was slashed off a piece obliquely, which made it unable to maintain its disguise anymore, turning into a big-headed monster with gray-white skin and a pair of scarlet eyes. Scarlet threadworms emerged from the wound, and these scarlet threadworms probed out half of their bodies from its head, twisting wantonly in the air.

Ligojia's vertical pupils were extremely fierce, and its mouth full of sharp teeth gnashed with *clack-clack* sounds, immediately preparing to pounce on Su Xiao. But at this moment, Ligojia suddenly sensed that behind this human race person in front, there seemed to be a massive blood beast, baring its interlaced sharp teeth, grinning and waiting for it to pounce forward actively.

The fear of facing the blood beast directly made the anger in Ligojia's heart vanish. What remained was the horror of falling into an ice cellar, and the reason that quickly calmed down due to this horror.

"It seems you are calm enough. Tell me, what is going on here."

Under the friendly negotiation of Su Xiao's -21 points of Charm attribute, Ligojia quickly calmed down and began to tell the situation here.

This area was actually an independently existing space, about half the size of the Shelter City. Above the upper layer, besides the Crazy Laugh Town, the surroundings were all dead trees and wandering rotting giants.

The reason for this had to go back to that Tyrant. After the Tyrant discovered this space, he began to study how to seize and master the power of scarlet here. However, the power of scarlet, as a super-high-level power twisted out of Abyss energy, the Tyrant could never master it. Even if he forcibly absorbed it into his body, he would be eroded by scarlet.

One of the Tyrant's subordinates thought of a solution. Since absorbing the power of scarlet directly didn't work, then take a compromise method—a parasite that could absorb the power of scarlet was cultivated.

First, let this parasite absorb the power of scarlet. Even if this parasite would die quickly, generation after generation of cultivation would allow this parasite's scarlet resistance to continue to improve. Until the end, transplant this kind of parasite into the body, and by controlling this kind of parasite, achieve the effect of possessing and controlling the power of scarlet.

In fact, the true power of scarlet didn't appear weird and terrifying. The power of scarlet mastered by the Scarlet Monarch was the tyranny of a hegemon, or it could be the power of blood and fire combined. And when it reached the Tyrant's side, the erosion of the power of scarlet turned into erosion, or weird parasites.

Although the Tyrant mastered the power of scarlet to a certain extent, his greed, which had been magnified to the limit, would not be satisfied with this. So he let his subordinates transplant more parasites into him, thereby further mastering the power of scarlet.

The result was predictable. The parasites in the Tyrant's body not only went out of control, but multiple parasites merged together. This parasite was the giant mouth that swallowed the Dark Eater just now, named the Mouth of Greed, which would swallow outsiders.

In fact, this space had two parts, the upper layer and the lower layer. When the Tyrant's parasites went out of control, it caused a chain reaction, leading to most of the Tyrant's subordinates being either swallowed by their respective parasites or controlled by them.

Ligojia was also one of the Tyrant's subordinates. He and several colleagues saw that the situation was not good, so they blew up the space door leading to the lower Monarch's Palace. In this way, the Monarch's Palace became a closed space, trapping those distorted monsters.

Ligojia, who was in the upper layer area, escaped a disaster, but he soon found that because of the parasites in his body, he could no longer leave this area, because these fully activated parasites could only survive in an environment where the power of scarlet dispersed. Once they left this place, these parasites would die quickly, and Ligojia, who was symbiotic with them, would also die.

The reason why people who entered the Crazy Laugh Town by mistake couldn't leave was because they were first parasitized by the parasites here, then forced to be symbiotic with them, and thus could never leave this place. And the reason why they would laugh crazily was because the parasites gradually invaded the brain.

"You mean, I have no possibility of going to the Monarch's Palace below?"

Su Xiao wrapped his right hand in a crystal layer while speaking.

"The possibility is very low, unless I take you to that broken space door..."

Before Ligojia finished speaking, several slashes flashed by. Until he died, he didn't understand why Su Xiao made a move so decisively.

With a *snap*, Ligojia's flesh and blood exploded, and a fluid-like parasite inside lunged at Su Xiao. But while still in mid-air, it was slashed into two halves. This attack with soul-slashing characteristics, even if this parasite had no vital point, was killed on the spot.

The reason Su Xiao slashed Ligojia was that the other party was lying, and it was a lie hidden in a few truths. He had already thought of how to go to the palace below: be swallowed by the Mouth of Greed, and naturally, he would arrive at the Monarch's Palace, where other secret treasures were hidden.

There was a problem: the Mouth of Greed was very wary of Su Xiao, so that giant mouth would definitely not come to swallow Su Xiao.

Just as Su Xiao was thinking about how to catch the Mouth of Greed, a voice suddenly came from beside him.

"My dear friend, I seem to smell the scent of treasure."

Caesar appeared beside him at some point. Regarding this, Su Xiao was already used to it. Facts proved that even if he was promoted to Supreme, he still couldn't perceive this guy's sudden appearance.

Caesar took out a soul money bag. This soul money bag was very special. Normal soul money bags were light golden, but this soul money bag faintly revealed a blood color.

Taking out this item, Caesar didn't hand it over directly, but asked Su Xiao to check the attributes of this thing first. Not only that, Caesar's hand holding this money bag was wearing 【Deceiver's Head Wrap】, seemingly not wanting to touch this thing.

【Strange Bad Luck Money Bag】

Origin: Void.

Category: Special Equipment (Bad Luck Item)

Durability: 20/30 points.

Prerequisite: Luck attribute 65 points or more (achieved).

Equipment Effect 1: Bad Luck Gambling (Active), each time this equipment is used, one of the following two situations may occur.

1. Permanently lose 10% of source vitality (maximum HP permanently loses 10%).

2. Obtain 1–50,000 Soul Coins basic gain, plus a small probability of obtaining additional rare resources (such as Space-Time Power, Power Source, Special Source, Primal Fragment, Soul Crystal Essence, etc.).

Hint: Due to the characteristics of this equipment, the effect derived from the Luck attribute is a negative gain, while Bad Luck derives a positive gain.

Hint: This equipment can be used once every 10 natural days.

Equipment Effect 2: Bad Luck Invasion (Passive), after touching this equipment, this equipment will be bound to the user. Subsequently, every 10 natural days, the holder of this equipment must use this equipment once, otherwise, they will permanently lose 10% of source vitality (maximum HP permanently loses 10%).

Rating: 5,000 points (special equipment rating is 1–6,000 points).

Introduction: This is a gamble with the God of Bad Luck.

Price: Cannot be sold, traded, transferred, abandoned, etc. after binding.

The characteristics of this Bad Luck Money Bag were quite peculiar, either losing 10% of maximum HP or obtaining gains. However, even if gains were triggered, the quantity of these gains was also very peculiar.

Under normal circumstances, the higher the Luck attribute, the greater the gain should be. But the characteristic of this thing was that the more unlucky you were, the greater the probability of high gains. Even, if you were unlucky enough, you wouldn't trigger the reduction of maximum HP, but would always obtain gains. This was gambling with the God of Bad Luck.

Each gamble, if the God of Bad Luck won, he could take away 10% of the source vitality from the equipment holder. If the equipment holder won, they could obtain the God of Bad Luck's Soul Coins, plus a low probability of obtaining additional rare resources.

But after careful consideration, one would find that this gamble was too unfair. This equipment required 65 points of Luck attribute to be used. Let alone 65 points, even if the Luck attribute exceeded 50 points, it was already very lucky.

This kind of good luck was destined to have no bad luck, and without bad luck, using 【Strange Bad Luck Money Bag】 would likely result in the loss of source vitality. Even if gains were obtained, it might only be obtaining dozens of Soul Coins.

What was even more insidious was that as long as you touched this equipment, it was considered activated, and then binding was achieved. Subsequently, every ten natural days, you had to use it once, otherwise, you would be directly taken away 10% of maximum HP by the God of Bad Luck.

Su Xiao took the 【Strange Bad Luck Money Bag】. The moment he touched this thing, a wave of bad luck quietly invaded, disappearing into his fortune, which meant he had already bound this equipment.

Su Xiao never liked equipment that relied on luck, but this time he wasn't looking at luck, but at the degree of bad luck.

After so many experiences, he had confidence in the Law-Breaker fortune. In addition, as a master of pharmacy, if he wanted to increase the 10% source vitality limit, he couldn't do it without enough precious materials. But if it was losing 10% of maximum HP, he could fully make up for it with potions later, with his level of pharmacy.

【You have activated the "Bad Luck Gambling" effect.】

【Bad Luck judging...】

【Judgment completed, you will obtain gains.】

【You have obtained 49,500 Soul Coins.】

【You have obtained 2 Primal Fragments.】

Seeing this prompt, Su Xiao felt quite surprised. The gain of Soul Coins was actually within expectations, and 2 【Primal Fragments】 were indeed something he hadn't expected.

Su Xiao split 25,000 Soul Coins and 1 【Primal Fragment】 to Caesar. As for the subsequent gains, he had originally prepared to give Caesar 30%, but without the equipment Caesar gave, there would be no possibility of subsequent benefits. However, Caesar refused. Although this guy was greedy, it depended on the situation.

This time, being able to obtain 25,000 Soul Coins and 1 【Primal Fragment】, Caesar had already achieved his expected goal. This transaction ended here, and he naturally wouldn't be greedy for the subsequent gains of 【Strange Bad Luck Money Bag】.

At this moment, in the Void, a temple located in the Void Land stood tall. Because there was no gravity around, large rocks and small islands floated, connected to each other by a kind of tree root.

The temple was dim. The god located behind the curtain was sleeping. Suddenly, its eyes opened.

"Another one, daring to challenge the god of the bad luck system."

Bad luck visible to the naked eye appeared around the God of Bad Luck, which caused space to begin to distort. However, this evil god didn't know what it was about to face.

Following the stairs leading obliquely downward, Su Xiao arrived in front of the metal door he had been to just now. However, at this moment, this door had closed on its own. He twisted the lock dial and found that the unlocking method just now had failed. He took out the Eye of Mystery, adjusted the mode, and attached it to it.

A precise mechanical operation sound came. A few minutes later, the metal lock dial opened with a *click*. Caesar, who had already been unable to hold back, walked into the ruined hall immediately. Seeing that there were Soul Coins everywhere, Caesar was already grinning from ear to ear.

After picking up a Soul Coin, Caesar was also moved by the intensity of this soul curse. He began to pace back and forth, scratching his head, thinking of a way to solve this curse. Not long after, Caesar's footsteps slowed down, and the smile on his face became more and more wretched and treacherous.

"My dear friend, can you seal the curse?"

Caesar took out a dirty wooden jar while speaking, opened it, and poured out a black crystal block from inside. Observing carefully, one would find that this thing didn't look like a crystal, but more like a body outer armor that had shattered, with star patterns on it.

"Haven't tried it, but it should be possible."

Su Xiao indeed hadn't sealed a curse, but with his sealing level that could even seal original sin items, sealing a curse was definitely no problem.

"Then in a while, seal this thing, so as not to let the soul curse entangle me."

Caesar finished speaking and put the Abyss Jar on his head. Then he took out the 【Deceiver's Head Wrap】 and put it outside the Abyss Jar, and finally placed the black crystal on the top of his head.

Caesar took out all kinds of scattered items and hung them all over his body. As he muttered something, these scattered items dissolved, turning into all kinds of energy, surging toward the black crystal on his head. This crystal first clung to the top of his head, then began to grow, actually turning into a horn with very faint star patterns, curving backward.

The appearance of this horn was very much like shrinking the horn of one of the Four Giants of the No-Light Temple, the Astral Devourer, by a lot, especially the star patterns on it. Although it was far less obvious than the star patterns on the Astral Devourer's horn, the patterns were the same.

As for where Caesar got this piece of the Astral Devourer's body outer armor, it must have been during the previous clash between the Astral Devourer and the Abyss Archbishop.

It wasn't that Caesar was prescient and estimated in advance that he could use it now, but that this piece of body outer armor belonged to a relatively valuable item.

After doing these, Caesar took out a large cloth bag. This cloth bag had very strong suction, sucking the scattered 【Primal Fragments】, 【Soul Crystal Essence】, Soul Coins, etc., into it rapidly.

According to the 50-50 split agreed upon in advance, Su Xiao received the following prompt.

【You have obtained 81,960 Soul Coins.】

【You have obtained 21 【Soul Crystal Essence】.】

【You have obtained 4 【Primal Fragments】.】

【You have obtained Storm Shield (Eternal-level equipment · unidentified, cannot view attributes).】

【You have obtained Book of Curses (Eternal-level equipment · unidentified, cannot view attributes).】

Consistent with the estimation, due to the poor preservation environment, some 【Primal Fragments】 and 【Soul Crystal Essence】 were damaged, and due to the long time, these damaged resources lost their value.

Although this was an amazing gain, this should not be the whole of the Monarch's Treasure. Other things might not be there, but 【Moon Glow】 was likely in the Monarch's Treasure.

A large amount of Soul Coins were in hand. Su Xiao didn't check the other gains for the time being, but took out 95,000 Soul Coins and returned them to Caesar. When he upgraded Blade Master before, he didn't have enough Soul Coins and borrowed some from Caesar.

Receiving the Soul Coins, Caesar took out the 【Ring Stigma】 that Su Xiao gave him as collateral before, and returned the property to its original owner.

Caesar still maintained a strange shape. Seeing this, Su Xiao took out the sealing box. Caesar immediately tore off the star-patterned horn on his head and threw it into the sealing box.

Su Xiao used the method of sealing original sin items to seal this horn that had suffered a strong soul curse. Caesar's operation method this time was simple and direct. Through the deception effect of 【Deceiver's Head Wrap】, he made the soul curse mistakenly believe that this horn was Caesar's main body, and the soul curse naturally gathered on it.

After all the soul curses gathered, Caesar immediately lifted the deception connection with this horn, and then with Su Xiao's sealing level, he sealed this horn with a strong soul curse. In this way, he obtained the secret treasure and avoided the soul curse through sealing.

Not only that, Su Xiao felt that this horn should have an unexpected effect when dealing with the Astral Devourer.

Putting away the sealing box, Su Xiao returned to the street of Crazy Laugh Town along the stairs leading upward. He activated "Hunting Vision," and everything around lost color, only a large scarlet sphere was located a thousand meters away. This was the Mouth of Greed. Without being swallowed by this thing, he couldn't enter the Monarch's Palace below.

But the problem was, Su Xiao found that this Mouth of Greed could clearly sense him. After he walked a few steps forward, the Mouth of Greed would drift a distance away, always keeping a sufficiently safe distance from him. This was because it had been startled by the "Extreme Blade · World" that was almost used before.

After thinking for a while, Su Xiao let Baha approach the Mouth of Greed alone. As a result, he found that he didn't know whether the Mouth of Greed sensed that Baha was a Law-Breaker's follower, or because they were both space-types, it was wary of Baha, and the Mouth of Greed also always stayed away from Baha.

Discovering this situation, Su Xiao let Baha take out a few Black Maple Leaves from the team storage space. This method really worked. After confirming that Su Xiao was still far away, the Mouth of Greed quietly lurked forward and swallowed Baha in one bite.

Su Xiao looked at Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang beside him. Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang shook its dog head, meaning it didn't want to be swallowed by that terrifying giant mouth. However, after learning that Baha was setting up space coordinates in the Monarch's Palace next, and then Su Xiao would teleport over with "Law-Breaker Teleportation Array," Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang immediately ran toward the Mouth of Greed.

The Mouth of Greed in the distance felt puzzled, was wary for a while, and then swallowed Ignoring Xiang Bubu Wang in one bite.

"Cough~, my dear friend, let's use the teleportation array together."

Caesar put on the Abyss Jar again. As for why he didn't go to the Monarch's Palace through the Mouth of Greed, the Mouth of Greed really tried to swallow Caesar before, but as soon as it swallowed him, before it could swallow, the Mouth of Greed almost lost consciousness.

The teleportation array under his feet gradually started. After a roar, the space mist around gradually dispersed.

【Hint: You have arrived at the Monarch's Palace.】

【Because "Dead Silence Ash" is located in this area, you can sense the location of "Dead Silence Ash" through the existing equipment "Soul · Coronation of the King." If you obtain "Dead Silence Ash," the five-fold seal of "Soul · Coronation of the King" will be lifted by three, releasing more power of "Dead Silence Source," significantly increasing the strength of "Soul · Coronation of the King," as well as the risk of use. You need to consider carefully whether to obtain "Dead Silence Ash."】 ===== CHAPTER 3763 =====